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PATENT OFFICE.

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SHOW-RACK FOR STORE-WINDOWS, 80C.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 444,815, dated January 20, 1891.

Application filed July 10, 1890.

To ct /Z whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN G. OAsLER, a citizen ofthe United States, residing at Cleveland, in the county of Ouyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Show-Racks for Store- Windows, the and I hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the holding the adjustable shelf-arm.

accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of a showrack embodying the several features of my invention. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail perspective view of a portion of the frame and one adjustable shelf-arm. Figs. 4 and 5 are reverse perspective views of the dog or detent for Fig. 6 is a plan or top view of the parts shown in Fig. 3.

Fig. 7 is a detached view of the corner-block in elevation, showing the bar grooves and clamps. Fig. 8 is a plan or top view of parts shown in Fig. 7. Fig. 9 is a detail view showing one modification of the devices for holding and adjusting the shelf-arm. Fig. 10 is a detail view of another modification of the devices for holding and adjusting the shelfarm. Fig. 11 is a detail view of a side or wall bracket which may form the vertical support for the shelf-arm.

Like symbols refer to like parts wherever they occur.

My invention relates to the construction of show-racks for the display of various goods, such as fancy goods, gentlemens furnishings, millinery, jewelry, bric-a-brac, or any other like articles which are most effectively shown in a detached or supported state, and has for its object to provide simple and efficient elements from which, with the aid of the usual rods, bars, or tubes now commonly employed, various forms of racks may be readily constructed, which racks shall be artistic, rigid, strong, easily set up and taken down, and readily convertible from one form to another.

This invention may be said to been improvement on those covered by my former patents, No. 398,027, dated February 19, 1889, and No. 421,907, dated February 25, 1890, as the main objects of the present invention are, first, to obtain a corner'block wherein both Serial No. 358,320. (No model.)

the vertical and cross rods or bars of the frame may be secured on the same side of the block or theircrossing concealed, if desired, and, second, to obtain a shelf-arm capable of being supported from the verticals, if desired, and also capable of a wide range in adjustment.

"lo this end one feature of my invention embraces a corner-block having on one of its faces intersecting bar-grooves, in combination with a clamp for securin g the bars to the cor,- ner-block.

A second feature of the invention embraces a shelf-arm having at one end a segment and pivot-point, in combination with a detent or clamp for holding the arm in any previouslydetermined position where it has been placed.

There are other minor features of invention, all as will hereinafter more fully appear.

I will now proceed to describe my invention more fully, so that others skilled in the art to which it appertains may apply to the same.

In the drawings, A A indicate verticals or uprights, which may be supported in any suitable or well-known way. In the present instance, for purposes of illustration, the verticals A are secured in foot-pieces a, attached to the flooring B.

which connect the verticals and are connected thereto by corner blocks 1. Said cornerblocks 1 are preferably of general T shape, (see Figs. 7 and 8,) with the vertical in a different plane from the horizontal, or, in other words, curved, as at 2, to allow the cross-bar C to pass the vertical A, and are provided on one face with intersecting bar-grooves 3 and 4 for the reception of the rods A C.

5 5 indicate clamps which are used to bind the rods A O to the corner-block 1. By preference such clamps are of hooked form, threaded at the straight end for the reception of thumb-nuts 6 6, that pass through holes 7 and 8 in the corner-block, though any equivalent means of clamping the bars A C to said corher-block may be substituted therefor, if desired.

By means of a suitable number of such rods or bars as are commonly used and a suficient number of the corner-blocks hereinbefore de- O 0 indicate the cross-rods or cross-bars scribed any desired form of rigid vertical frame or rack for the support of shelf-arms 9 9 may be produced.

The shelf-arms 9 I form with a pivot-hole 10 at one end, adapted to receive either the cross-rod C or any equivalent journal or pivot which will permit the rotationof the arm, and I surround the same with the segment of a circle 11, with which engages a clamp or detent to hold the arm 9 firmly in any position in which it may be placed. The segment 11 should be of sufficient extent to allow movement of the arm through any desired distance-say one hundred and eighty degreesand is preferably constructed in the form of a rack-bar (see Fig. 3) to engage with a detent 12, (see Figs. 4 and 5,) having a hook 13, which engages the vertical A. If, however, a more positive clamp than the detent and rack is desired, the segment 11 may be slotted, as at 11, (see Figs. 9 and 10,) and a thumb-screw 12 may be passed through said slot and engage a nut 13, either on a projection formed on the corner-block (see Fig. 9) or in a ring 1, slipped on the vertical A above the corner-block, or any equivalent clamp or detent maybe used to adjustably bind the segment 11 to the vertical A. In order to brace the shelf-arm 9 against lateral play or vibration, it may have a bracket-arm 1-1, with an eye for the passage of the cross-bar C.

The shelf-arm is provided with a series of double rod-notches 15 of a character to retain the shelf-rods 16 in whatever position or at whatever angle the shelf-arms may be placed.

In cases where the slot and thumb -screw clamp, as shown in Figs. 9 and 10, is used,the arms may be finished on both sides and used at either end of the rack and either outside or between the verticals A A, as preferred; but where the rack-bar and detent-clamp mechanism shown in Figs. 3 and 6 is used it will be desirable to make the shelf-arms rights and lefts, in order to obtain symmetry and finish in the show-rack.

In case it is desired to use the shelf-arms as side brackets, it can be readily done by using a wall-fixture having a pivot the equivalent of cross-bar O and an upright the equivalent of vertical A of the general character shown in Fig. 11 of the drawings.

Among the advantages arising from my present invention are, first, the firmness and rigidity imparted to the vertical frame by the corner-blocks, as well as the simplicity of construction of said frame, and, second, the great range of adjustment permitted the shelf-arms,

as well as the rigidity and simplicity of their connection with the vertical frame.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1 In a show-rack, the combination, with frame -bars, of a corner-block having intersecting bar-grooves on one of its faces and clamps for securing the bars to the cornerblock, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

2. In ashowrack, the combination, with frame-bars, of a curved corner-block having intersecting bargrooves and clamps for securing the bars to the corner-block, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

3. In a showrack, the combination, with frame-bars, of a corner-block having intersectin g bar-grooves and hook-clamps arranged in holes in the corner-block and provided with thumb-n uts, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

4. The combination, with a fixed support, of a shelf-arm having at one end a pivotal bearing and segment of a circle and a clamp or detent which binds on the fixed support and the segment to hold the shelf-arm in a fixed position, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

5. The combination of a shelf-arm having a pivotal bearing and segment at one end, a bracket-arm extending from the shelf-arm to the journal of said arm, and a clamp which binds on the segment to hold the shelf-arm in a fixed position, substantially as and, for the purposes specified.

6. The combination, with afixed support, of a shelf-arm having at one end a pivot and a segment with ratchet-teeth, and a dog or detent adapted to engage with the fixed support and with the ratchet-teeth of the segment of the shelf arm, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

7. A shelf-arm having a pivotal bearing at one end and a semicircular clamp-bar or segment which projects beyond the shelf-arm and whose center is the pivotal bearing of the arm, substantially as and for the purposes-specified.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature, in presence of two witnesses, this 9th day of July, 1890.

BENJAMIN G. CASLER.

\Vitn esses:

E. H. BoHM, J. T. BRIGHTMORE.

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